Never really been into William Bennett's Cut Hands project much, but I keep tabs on it because I'm still a sucker for Whitehouse and anything those guys cook up. Cut Hands always seemed a little...amateurish? I guess? Not harsh enough for noise and the African beats and instrumentation used sound kinda...generic? Like just loop some African drums over a breakbeat and you've got Cut Hands. Nevertheless. There's a few good cuts (ha) on here - "Festival of the Dead Ondo" is where the shtick works best, and is more a fully fleshed out track than we usually get from this project, and "Drink Them Like Milk" has an insistent rhythm (no harshness) that is undeniable. "Prototaxic Distortion" is a slow, menacing more ambient-ish track and "Damballah 58 (Benin Mix)" is one of those predictable repetitive Afro rhythm tracks but it goes on for so long it almost comes back around to being enjoyable. Two other shorter ambient pieces that make up this EP.
Nachtmystium/Leviathan - In the Valley of Death, Where Black Metal is King: An Homage to the Roots (Ascension Monuments Media, 2018)
What the fuck is that title. Okay I get the first part is a Judas Iscariot tribute, but did we really need "an homage to the roots" in there? Hey wouldn't it be funny if these were actually covers of the band The Roots? Anyway. This album was supposed to come out 10 years ago, but it was blocked by the bands' respective labels. Now I guess they've figured out a way, or Blake Judd needs money for drugs so he's figured out a way, to put this out. The Bandcamp version has 8 tracks, 5 from Nachtmystium and 3 from Leviathan, but I've seen a 10-track tracklisting elsewhere. On the version I have, we have Nachtmystium covering Judas Iscariot, Ildjarn (twice), Von and Burzum. Leviathan tackles Ildjarn (twice) and Von once. I seem to be missing Leviathan's Judas Iscariot cover ("Where the Winter Beats Incessant") and one of Nachtmystium's Von covers ("Von"). Weird. Wonder if there were some licensing issues or something. All four Ildjar...
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